The State can try a pilot program which separates from Federal government in order to test a business & financial model. Having a printing press which will gurantee the worth of a dollar, by silver or other precious metals backing.

Other states could join the model for one independent block that can run independent of federally insured funding.

Small businesses return & are given tax breaks for doing so & must use the proceeds by reinvesting them into that business.
Large corporations are not punished but rewarded for supporting the small, vendor; & hiring locally & hostile takeovers are a illegal.
As are monopolies & opolies illegal, as historically they had been or were supposed to be; the reason for big business are due to both. Hostile take overs & the monopolies.
The larger the business, the more employees for which tax credit is given up too the capped amount.
So, that's a BIG idea.

Thank you for the link, SLP. The Forbes article was thorough and informative.
However, I think you're being overly optimistic in thinking that conservatives will read anything longer than Sarah Palin's Tweets or bumper stickers.

Gee whiz, Look at this. I, a proud CONSERVATIVE read the whole article and found it fascinating! The point of the article seems to be that these big corporations have found a way to pay taxes to other countries because those countries have a lower rate and charge off their losses here at our higher rate! This happens because our corporate taxes are too high! THAT is what need to change so that we can begin collecting the taxes here and not have them being paid overseas!
Here is another fascinating part of the article that people should pay attention to:
"Would no more tax holiday for GE really end up helping Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer? Doubtful. "The average Joe should be in favor of lower corporate taxes," says Hodge, "because ultimately they are paying the corporate income tax. Either as workers, getting lower wages and fewer jobs, or as consumers, paying higher prices, or as retirees, getting lower dividends and earnings on their investments.""

Rosemary B (well at least you use part of your real name, better than most of the anonymous bloggers on this site) I appologize if I sounded judgmental. But it gets more than a little frustrating to hear the conservative formula for all problems in America being summed up in two, very short phrases: less taxes, smaller government. Is that all you got?

CPAC should issue every card-carrying a conservative one of those buttons that Staples uses. Only instead of saying "That was easy," when you push it, it would say "No New Taxes." I mean, when there's a surplus the answer is, of course, cut taxess (after all, it's not the government's money). When there's a deficit and two wars going, cut taxes (that will stimulate job growth).

I don't know, it sounds very un-American when conservatives talk about the government as if it's some foreign entity, some invading force of evil. The government is me and you and the rest of the good the God-fearing freedom-loving people in this land. Rememeber that guy Lincoln (who would probably be challenged by the Tea Party in a Repulican Primary today)?

When he described our democracy as "government by the people, of the people, and for the people," I don't think he was talking about Exxon-Mobile or the Koch brothers. But I could be wrong.

According to this article, Lowering the corporate tax IS a good answer to getting corporations to pay taxes here. Also, the answer does not always have to be "No New Taxes". It can also be "Cut Wasteful Spending!" Taxpayers feel like a father who gives their teenager a sportscar, they crash it and then demand Daddy buy them another! It just cannot go on like this forever. The economy is bad. We are all cutting back. Why is the government not cutting back and living on the ample taxes that they already take in? It is also very frustrating when the President is willing to help BRAZIL drill for their oil and not allow US to drill for ours. That sounds like he is more in favor of a foreign entity then he is in favor of bringing jobs to his own people and lowering gas prices so that OUR economy can grow. Perhaps when OUR government puts OUR needs first we will not feel like they are "an invading force of evil".

I'm not sure how much thinking is used in policies that essentially are devoid of governing. And I'm not talking about conservative bloggers or voters here, I'm talking about our so-called leaders. What was the last inovative idea conservatives have had about governing? If I can make an analogy to physics, I'd say governing is matter (substance) and the conservative idea of governing is anti-matter. F.D.R. gave us Social Security and the Hoover Dam, Ronald Reagan gave us the Laffer curve and trickle down economics. Teddy Roosevelt (another Republican who would face a Tea Party challenge today) gave us The Pure Food and Drug Act and anti-trust laws to curb abusive, monopolistic business practices, while George H.W. Bush gave us "a 1000 points of light." Republicans have no ideas about using government creatively, wisely, humanely. It's all about letting corporations run roughshod over the rest of us, in the name of "freedom." And it all comes down to your definition of that wonderful abstract noun, "freedom." But I think FDR's list sums it up well: Feedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear, and, don't forget Freedom from want.

It is not the governments job to provide "freedom from want" or "Freedom from fear".

At what point does a person's lot in life become their own responsibility?

Yes & stop funding Homeland Security "The Mother! Guard your mother Land!", as well as TSA. Do you know those xray machines still have not been tested? It's anyone's guess the amount of waves made each time one is used which would, IMO, reach beyond it's small proxcimity; but either way it's a medical device being abused. Who is responsible for liabilities having to do with these "Guard the Motherland from yourself", idea.

The story of Nazi/Hitler/Germany shadows today so closely too; even though a 'hoax' as some call it faux for me, . it's right there for all to see, yet they keep flying, no signs of protest, a robotic state of mind to line-up & wait their turn.

They talk of 'Freedom' on their Capitol there's a female statute named "Freedom" I would guess 1 out of 10 know that she's the devil's wife.